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Management and sharing of IAS data to support knowledge-based decision making at regional level

26-28 September 2018

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

Organised by:

RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST (ICUB),
FACULTY OF BIOLOGY (FB) AND BOTANIC GARDEN
„D. BRANDZA” (GBDB) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST (UB)

EAST AND SOUTH EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR

INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES (ESENIAS)

DANUBE REGION INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES NETWORK (DIAS)

In collaboration with:

INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH,

BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (IBER-BAS)

Organising Committee

Paulina Anastasiu, UB (chair)

Carmen Chifiriuc, ICUB

Carmen Postolache, UB-FB

Geta Rîşnoneanu, UB-FB

Cristina-Andreea Staicu, UB-FB

Petronela Camen-Comănescu, GBDB

Eugenia Nagodă, GBDB

Mihaela Urziceanu, GBDB

Oana Peiu, ICUB

Daniela Clara Mihai, UB-FB

Marian Constantin, ICUB

Teodora Trichkova, IBER-BAS,

ESENIAS, DIAS

Ahmet Uludağ, ESENIAS, DIAS

Rumen Tomov, ESENIAS, DIAS

Florian Ballnus, DIAS

Scientific Committee

Paulina Anastasiu, Romania (chair)

Teodora Trichkova, Bulgaria

Ahmet Uludağ, Turkey

Steve Adkins, Australia

Necmi Aksoy, Turkey

Borys Aleksandrov, Ukraine

Sven Bacher, Switzerland

Angela Bănăduc, Romania

Christian Bohren, Switzerland

Giuseppe Brundu, Italy

Dan Cogălniceanu, Romania

Csaba Csuzdi, Hungary

Aljoša Duplić, Croatia

David Finger, Iceland

MilkaGlavendekić, Serbia

Gábor Guti, Hungary

F. Güler Ekmekçi, Turkey

Zdravko Hubenov, Bulgaria

Nicoleta Ianovici, Romania

Sven Jelaska, Croatia

Nejc Jogan, Slovenia

Pavel Jurajda, Czech Republic

Hristina Kalcheva, Bulgaria

Paraskevi Karachle, Greece

Stelios Katsanevakis, Greece

Yalçın Kaya, Turkey

Harald Kutzenberger, Austria

Yuriy Kvach, Ukraine

Richard Lansdown, UK

Dinka Matosevich, Croatia

Daniyar Memedemin, Romania

Adrian Oprea, Romania

Eliza Oprea, Romania

Momir Paunović, Serbia

Lucian Pârvulescu, Romania

Danijela Pavlović, Serbia

Ana Petrova, Bulgaria

Luis Popa, Romania

Cristina Preda, Romania

Sanja Radonjić, Montenegro

Geta Rîşnoveanu, Romania

Laurenţiu Rozylowicz, Romania

Riccardo Scalera, Italy

Anca Sârbu, Romania

Culiţă Sîrbu, Romania

Marius Skolka, Romania

Josef Soukup, Czech Republic

Cristina-Andreea Staicu, Romania

Barbara Stammel, Germany

Milcho Todorov, Bulgaria

Rumen Tomov, Bulgaria

Sasho Trajanovski, FYR Macedonia

Violeta Tyufekchieva, Bulgaria

Doru Ureche, Romania

Vladimir Vladimirov, Bulgaria

Sava Vrbnijanin, Serbia

Irina Zarafu, Romania

Argyro Zenetos, Greece

Conference Overview

Networking and cooperation on invasive alien species (IAS) in different scales is crucial for the collection, harmonisaiton, standardisation, management and sharing of sufficient, high-quality and up-to-date scientific information. Recently, several joint research projects have been implemented in order to collect and analyse IAS data at regional level. The largest project conducted by the ESENIAS countries is the ESENIAS-TOOLS project: East and South European Network for Invasive Alien Species – A tool to support the management of alien species in Bulgaria (2015-2017). This project aimed at networking and development of IAStools to support the management of alien species in Bulgaria and in the overall region. Some of the outcomes of the ESENIAS-TOOLS project include:compilation of lists of alien species; collection of data on alien marine, freshwater and terrestrial plants, fungi and animal species; and prioritisation of species and preparation of lists of priority species for the ESENIAS region.The project ‘Potential threats to environmental and economic sustainability in the Danube and Black Sea Region: Danube River as invasive alien species corridor’ has been conducted since2012, by the IBER-BAS, and supported by the International Association of Danube Research (IAD), ESENIAS, and recently by DIAS. Another DIAS project was implemented in the period 2016-2017: Pilot-study (data collection) on invasive alien species in the Danube Region with a smartphone application developed by the Joint Ressearch Centre (JRC) (Danube-IASapp project). The practical use of the smartphone applicationwas tested by gathering of data on invasive alien species of EU concernto assist in monitoring and early detection of IAS in the Danube River basin. The achieved results and data within these projects will be further analysed and managed by the newly developed tools, and thus, will contribute to implementation of the existing IAS instruments and development of the Danube Region IAS strategy and workplan.

This conference entitled ’Management and sharing of IAS data to support knowledge-based decision making at regional level’is the second conference organised jointly by the ESENIAS and DIAS. The conference aims at:

Presentation of research results from the recent ESENIAS and DIAS project activities

Sharing of results and information on other IAS related initiatives carried out in the region, such as national and local monitoring programmes, risk assessments, pathway analyses and action plans, control and eradication projects, management plans and national strategies, citizens activities and responsibilities, data planning and management

Networking and cooperation among scientists in the ESENIAS and DIAS regions and with other networks and projects in Europe.

The Danube River as invasive alien species corridor – priority species for the Danube Region, impact on threatened species, specificity of biological invasions in Lower, Middle and Upper Danube River sections

Management and sharing of IAS data will be also the main topic of the 8th ESENIAS Workshop. Possibilites for extending, maintanance and improvement of the ESENIAS database will be discussed at a brainstorming session.

Important Information

The official language of the conference will be English.

Authors are invited to submit their contributions related to one or more of the scientific topics given above. The scientific presentations will be oral or poster. Each presentation should indicate the most appropriate topic. The number of scientific contributions by an author is limited to two.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to change the scientific topic and form of presentation (oral/ poster) in case of thematic consideration or timing.

Publications

Abstracts accepted for presentation will be published in a Book of Abstracts (in electronic and printed form).

The authors are invited to submit full papers for publication in:

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research (TRSER) >>>